Annals of natural disasters have always caused common interest. Scientists and specialists of various domains, teachers, students, post-graduates, journalists .. and merely inquisitive can find useful and didactic information in such annals~ Sad experience of the natural disasters endured gives very important material for humanity. It allows us not only to understand better the phenomenon itself, but also to prepare ourselves for future cataclysms, which our "Mother-Nature" is so rich in. The book by Sergey Soloviev and a group of his collaborators represents a detailed description of tsunami waves and accompanying phenomena in the Mediterranean Sea over a period of approximately four thousand years. Sergey Soloviev, the founder and recognised leader of the Russian scientific school of tsunami researchers, was unable to see the publication of this book, passing away on March 9, 1994. However, his ample experience in investigation and systematisation of tsunami waves for the Pacific area [Soloviev and Go, 1974, 1975; Soloviev, Go and Kim, 1986] has been widely used in compiling this book. The Mediterranean coasts are the cradle of civilisation. Written accounts of past disasters in this region of the Earth are rather numerous and highly reliable. Therefore the results of the tsunami study in the Mediterranean Sea are of specific value both for the scientific community and for humanity at large.
Authors, Editors and Affiliations
Strasbourg, France
Jean Bonnin
P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology RAS, S. L. Soloviev Tsunami Laboratory, Moscow, Russia
Boris W. Levin
Bologna, Italy
Stefano Tinti
Athens, Greece
Gerassimos A. Papadopoulos
P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Sergey L. Soloviev,
Olga N. Solovieva
Institute of Marine Geology and Geophysics, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia
Chan N. Go,
Khen S. Kim,
Nikolay A. Shchetnikov
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Tsunamis in the Mediterranean Sea 2000 B.C.-2000 A.D.
Authors: Sergey L. Soloviev, Olga N. Solovieva, Chan N. Go, Khen S. Kim, Nikolay A. Shchetnikov
Editors: Jean Bonnin, Boris W. Levin, Stefano Tinti, Gerassimos A. Papadopoulos
